Cardiovascular medicine

"e;What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning.

Nitrates have been for many years the cornerstone of cardiovascular therapy for various indications.

0 d Technische Weiterentwicklungen haben die Grundlage dazu geschaffen, daß heute im Langzeit-EKG neben Rhythmusstörungen auch passagere Myokardischämien erfaßt werden können.

Die Möglichkeiten der bildgebenden Systeme für die Diagnostik von Herzerkrankungen werden in diesem Band der Klinischen Radiologie beschrieben.

Jean Natali The pathophysiology and management of chronic critical limb -ischaemia (CLI) has always been a problematic area, at least partly because it involves doc- tors from a wide range of the traditional medical specialities including vascular surgery, angiology, diabetology, haematology and radiology.

Die Ultraschall-Doppler-Untersuchung ist eine gefahrlose, wenig zeitaufwendige Methode, die leicht erlernt werden kann und gut reproduzierbare Ergebnisse mit hohem Aussagewert liefert.

These are the proceedings of the third Asian Pacific Adalat Symposium.

Heart failure is a clinical entity characterized by a certain combination of symptoms and signs.

Dieser Band gibt einen Überblick über aktuelle Aspekte der koronaren Herzkrankheit, von der heute nahezu jeder 2.

In the cardiovascular sciences, an increasing demand for the use of modern methods of cell biology has developed.

Dieses Buch bietet, kurzgefaßt und übersichtlich in 13 Kapital gegliedert, eine umfassende Einführung in die Anwendung der Computertomographie im Thorakal- und Abdominalbereich; die im Text gegebenen Anleitungen werden großzügig durch didaktisch hervorragendes Bildmaterial illustriert.

Diese neue Reihe widmet sich der praxisnahen Fortbildung von Allgemeinärzten und Internisten auf dem gesamten Terrain der Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen.

Hemorheologic therapy has gained considerably in importance in recent years.

This volume contains the contributions to a Satellite Symposium of the XXXI In- ternational Congress of Physiological Sciences in Espoo, Helsinki, Finland, July 15-17,1989.

Despite a worldwide reduction in its incidence, stroke remains one of the most common diseases generally and the most important cause of premature and persistent disability in the industrialized countries.

The prevention and correction of high blood pressure obviously is not an end in itself but a means of preventing cardiovascular complications.

Percutaneous transluminal angioscopy is opening up exciting possibilities for the interventional radiologist, since it can picture vascular features with an accuracy and clarity that previously has not been possible.

Attempts to reconstruct various parts of the heart started even before the beginning of open cardiac surgery.

The previous volume on Antihypertensive Agents in the Handbook of Experi- mental Pharmacology, published in 1977, was edited by the late Franz Gross from the Department of Pharmacology in Heidelberg, who was one of the grand old men in hypertension research.

Die koronare Herzkrankheit gehört zu den führenden Krankheits- und Todesursachen in der industrialisierten Welt.

Dieses erste deutschsprachige Buch zum Thema der pharmakologischen und therapeutischen Wirksamkeit von Prostaglandin E1 enthält aktuelle zusammengefaßte Originalarbeiten.

Controversy regarding the wisdom of a high salt intake has been with us for 5000 years.

The* first meeting of the cardiovascular drug therapy forum took place on April 13-15, 1988 in Montreux, Switzerland.

Distinguished scientists and members of the medicalprofession discuss the research and development of safe andsuitable drugs for the long-term treatment of chronicdiseases.

Assisted Circulation 3 is an authoritative review of the progress which has been achieved in the last 5 years since the appearance of Assisted Circulation 2 in 1984.

PTA has proven to be an essential tool in the diagnosis of peripheral occlusive vascular disease.

The development of a new antiarrhythmic drug involves many people with disparate skills.

The recent rapid advances in our knowledge of immunological and virological mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of viral heart disease makes it difficult for everybody working in this field to keep up with the latest developments.

Effective treatment of acute myocardial infarction remains one of the major issues in cardiology and internal medicine.

Die vielgestaltigen Prozesse bei Herzkrankheiten, wie die funktionellen Störungen und die koronare Herzkrankheit, erfordern multimodale, interaktionistische Forschungsstrategien, die die biologischen, psychologischen und sozialen Faktoren integrieren.

MRI has opened up new possibilities in combined morphological and functional imaging, and now there is a book which discusses both aspects together.

Dieses Buch enthält die Beiträge eines Symposiums, anläßlich des 70.

Die antiarrhythmische Therapie ist heute vielfältiger und wirksamer, aber auch komplizierter als noch vor wenigen Jahren.

Over 10 years have passed since the first edition of The Mediastinum was published in 1977.

The association of diabetes mellitus and hypertension has been well known for a long time.

Calcium Entry Blockers (CEBs) are a new class of drugs which have been pushing back the frontiers of science and medicine for almost two decades.

A certain standardization has now been introduced into the operative techniques of vascular surgery after the stormy developments of the last few decades.